Bystanders Beware

John Ibbitson encapsulates what's really at stake in  this shambolic U.S. election. The Republicans' standard-bearer, Trump personifies the future of America if the power elites' grip isn't soon  loosened.  Whether he wins or not, the 99 percent will opt  for iconoclasts of one sort or another until the fabric of the republic comes apart.  The schisms between rich and poor, red or blue states, black, white or brown people and authority figures over heavily-armed resistors are too obvious to deny any longer.

We hope that Hillary Clinton  recognizes the domestic challenges she would face as President-elect --to say nothing of the opportunistic Russian autocrat, suicidal Middle Easterners or that nuclear loon in North Korea.

We also hope that  Canadians understand how we have  gone  along with corporate America to get along for decades.  Our time is coming too.  The spillover effect from an American train wreck would send us crawling back into the farm fields and forests as sure as if the republican elephant sat on us.